Best-practice segregation of duties policy libraries for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business Suite to natively embed real-time preventive controls within the applications. Also, this release leverages a services-oriented adapter framework and integration templates that easily extend capabilities to non-Oracle applications. The services-oriented approach is designed specifically to provide end-to-end access control across heterogeneous application environments.

A sophisticated access policy engine that supports fine-grained controls authoring and handling. This engine helps ensure that access policies are applied within their proper business context, thereby reducing any impact on daily business operations and minimizing unnecessary detection and remediation cycles resulting from false positives.

A central work queue console that includes contextual reports with embedded heat maps to enable more rapid identification and remediation of conflicts. Compliance and security officers can leverage pre-delivered embedded analytics that trace exceptions back to their root sources, along with advanced simulation capabilities to quickly and accurately diagnose exceptions.

Oracle Application Access Controls Governor is a key component of the Oracle GRC applications suite, a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that combine GRC intelligence, process and content management, and controls enforcement to achieve business objectives while helping to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate mandates. The Oracle GRC applications suite includes:

Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance Intelligence - presents qualitative and quantitative information from both Oracle and non-Oracle systems through integrated reports and dashboards, allowing executives and managers to confidently identify and focus efforts on key risk and control issues.

Supporting Quotes

"Oracle Application Access Controls Governor Release 8 enables organizations to resolve access and authorization pain points on a global level," said Oracle GRC Strategy Vice President Chris Capdevila. "With the pre-built library of segregation of duties controls - now including hundreds of controls for PeopleSoft, open adapter framework for multi-platform support, and the ability to automate and enforce corporate policies in real-time, customers can meet their corporate governance, regulatory compliance and risk management goals with the greatest assurance."

"We've been able to realize significant returns on our investment in the Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Controls Suite to date," said Intuit Controls Advisory Manager Robert Singleton. "The 8.0 release of Oracle Application Access Controls Governor should help us continue our efforts to deliver well-controlled and efficient business processes, not only across the Oracle E-Business Suite, but also in our PeopleSoft and Siebel applications."

"PricewaterhouseCoopers helps clients to rationalize risk and compliance operating models using recognized enterprise risk management principles," said Miles Everson, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Our alliance with Oracle and the continuing expansion of their enterprise GRC platform aligns with our integrated GRC (iGRC) model to help organizations increase business process effectiveness while reducing cost and complexity."

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